The more failed predictions of history

From Edison saying that ac was dangerous and useless, until the journalists who claimed that the iPad would be a disaster, our world was (and still is) full of failed predictions…
Let’s meet some of the most failed predictions of history in various fields, in accordance with an article of The Time.
1. “The Macintosh uses an experimental device, called “mouse”. There is no evidence that people want to use such things” – John C. Dvorak, editor of technology issues for the newspaper San Francisco Examiner, 1984.
2. “To believe the Apple that you can succeed where they have failed all the others, it’s like it ignores some basic realities of tablet computing” – Randall C. Kennedy, it consultant and partner of Infoworld, 2009.
3. “Playing with the ac is just a waste of time. I’m not going to use ever” – Thomas Edison, 1899.
4. “It’s not going to be built ever bigger aircraft” – an engineer with Boeing who saw the construction of the 247, a δικινητήριου aircraft, in which they fit 10 people, 1933.
5. “Cinema is not for anything else, than just for fantasy geeks. It’s a canned drama. What he really wants to see the audience’s flesh and bones on the stage” – Charlie Chaplin, predicting the decline of the cinema, 1916.
6. “The theory of Louis Pasteur about germs is ridiculous fiction” – Pierre Pachet, professor of physiology at the university of Toulouse, 1872.
7. “Our descendants after many years of eating strawberries large like apples on christmas tables” – article in Ladies’ Home Journal entitled “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years”, 1900.
8. “You’ve got a piece in your tooth, your Adam’s apple in your neck pops very out and talking too late” – one of the leaders of the Universal in rejecting the actor Clint Eastwood, 1959.
9. “You have to call yourself’ Rock ‘ or ‘Jack’ or something like that. Anything other than “Elvis Presley”” – Ronnie Hawkins.
10. “First and only concern as an actor is his profession. So, you can be sure that it won’t come down never for mayor or something else, in addition to “head” my own home” – Ronald Reagan speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, 1955.
11. “We will bury you” – Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union, predicting the “triumph” of the Soviet Union against the capitalism of the united states, 1956.
12. “Who cares about a few terrorists in Afghanistan?” – Paul Wolfowitz, deputy secretary of Defense of the united states answering questions for Al-Qaeda, April 2001.